Atlanta band Lotus Grove has shared "Ordinary People," the roaring second single pulled from their upcoming 12-track album project. Built upon a 15-year friendship forged in the sweaty anxiety of middle school, the group synthesizes their incredibly diverse backgrounds into something intensely physical. This latest cut leans hard into alternative rock and emo-pop, throwing a fast-paced, urgently emotional melody against a dense, fiercely propulsive...

Listening to aktenzeichen_T’s new EP, "Midnight Between Lagrange Points", feels less like putting on a record and more like unsealing a classified file. The artist's name, German for "case file number," seems to promise a kind of cold, bureaucratic evidence, and the Leipzig producer delivers—but the subject of this file is the messy, beating heart of human conflict. A case file rendered in kick...